New Delhi: Industrial production growth rate slowed to 1.7 percent in December last year on sequential basis mainly due to a contraction in the mining and quarrying sector.
The growth in factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), in the month under review was, however, higher as compared to December, 2013 when it expanded by 0.1 percent.
The November IIP has been revised upwards to 3.9 percent from 3.8 percent.
For the April-December period of 2014-15, IIP is 2.1 percent as against 0.1 percent in same period of the last fiscal.
As per government data released today, manufacturing output, which constitutes over 75 per cent to the index, grew by 2.1 per cent in December compared to a dip of 1.1 percent in the same month a year ago.
For April-December period, the sector saw an output growth of 1.2 per cent, compared to a contraction 0.4 per cent in the year-ago period.
Output in the mining sector contracted by 3.2 percent in December, compared to a growth of 2.6 per cent in the same month last year.
During the April-December period, the output has grown by 1.7 per cent compared to a contraction of 1.5 per cent year-on-year.
The production of capital goods, a barometer of demand, grew by 4.1 percent in December as against a contraction of 2.5 percent in same month of last year.
During the April-December period, capital goods output grew by 4.8 per cent as against a dip of 0.4 percent.
Thirteen out of the 22 industry groups in the manufacturing sector have shown positive growth during the month of December 2014 year-on-year.
